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Article: Researchers from Michigan State University publish new studies and findings in the area of biology.
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- Life Science Weekly
- Article date:
- September 23, 2008
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According to recent research from the United States, "Clonal plants that are physiologically integrated might perceive and interact with their environment at a coarser resolution than smaller, non-clonal competitors. We develop models to explore the implications of such scale asymmetries when species compete for multiple depletable resources that are heterogeneously distributed in space across two patches."
"Species are either 'non-integrators', whose growth in each patch depends on resource levels in that patch alone, or 'integrators', whose growth is equal between patches and depends on average resource levels across patches. Integration carried both benefits ...